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For what it is worth, I think the first versions of autopilot were better.Unlike other rich people, or at least the stereotype, Elon simply wants to accelerate the advent of sustainable transportation and make life interplanetary. Money is a means to that end and it is absolutely nothing more. And he knows he has enough to that as well as him being a good human being.
My first meeting with him proved this. We were designing the autopilot system when he says, our first priority is to ensure the system will be safe as in it won't hit things it shouldn't and it will be able to not hit things even the best human driver couldn't avoid. Man, he sold me, proved to me he was the right guy for me to work for and that continues to this day. Yeah he's quirky, eccentric and flawed to a point, but he is relentless in his primary pursuits.
- In Feynman's book he talks about knowing what a bird does as being more important than knowing the exact name of the bird. The early versions of autopilot were more like that.
- I think the labeling of everything to the last detail is for customer acceptance - screen rendering. If it just ran on physics and first order labeling, few would trust it, even if it worked.
- Won't fly without market acceptance. Much of the market is verbal -i.e. needs words for brain function, particularly most who write code.
So this is a compliment, with what appear to be immutable facts 1, 2 and 3 above, that explain why it needs to be the way it is today.